Re:Rust – A hard decision pays off
by throwaway894345 on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @12:58PM
(#32582320)
Tooling was the reason I left C++. Having to do your own package management and script your own build system was deeply dull work. The IDE story was also pretty miserable, although I think clangd has improved it a bit. Getting decent information out of core dumps also sucked a lot. The language actually didn’t bother me too much after c++11, but everything else was such a bear that I jumped ship.
Rust has been very rewarding in that it largely fixes all of C++’s tooling and language problems. It very much is a significantly improved C++.
I actually filed a ticket at Carbon project saying c++'s top 1 problem is tooling, modern c++ is pretty nice to use already, no need for Carbon there in fact, at least not as needed as tooling.
The tooling is the #1 reason I'd like to learn rust. I have not kept up with C++ and I'm not sure I ever will... sometimes plain C seems more straightforward. But those languages (C++ especially) have suffered from lack of standard tooling, in my opinion.
Even C# being a few years younger than Java seems to have made a huge difference in tooling availability (I'm sure having a single corporate driver during its lifetime made a difference, too).
I'm excited by the prospect of a compiled language with modern tooling.